L'agricoltore's magazine . Uno o due womenattend allo scopo di liberare il vello di fromparticles clotted lana, e successivamente windingthem. Il prezzo ottenuto per la chp ultimo soldwas 31s. per pietra di 24kg. Il pascolo onwhich il Cheviot pecore sono lambiti da cui posizionesemi allevati gli agnelli vengono allevati, è situato sul confine thenorthern del Lammermuirs. Thelambs sono svezzati intorno alla metà di agosto,quando vengono rimossi per i pascoli sovn su thefarm. In novembre sono bagnate con un mix-ture di tabacco e hquor spuit di catrame, in pro-porzione di una mezza pinta di birra Scozzese del primo a

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The Farmer's magazine . One or two womenattend for the purpose of freeing the fleeces fromparticles of clotted wool, and afterwards windingthem. The price obtained for the chp last soldwas 31s. per stone of 24lbs. The pasture onwhich the Cheviot ewes are grazed, from which thehalf-bred lambs are reared, is situated on thenorthern boundary of the Lammermuirs. Thelambs are weaned about the middle of August, when they are removed to the sovn pastures on thefarm. In November they are bathed with a mix-ture of tobacco hquor and spuit of tar, in the pro-portion of half a Scotch pint of the former to awine-glassful of the latter for each sheep. Theyhave then a few turnips laid on their pasture, and, when they have fully acquired a taste for them, they are folded on turnips alone during winter andspring, or until grass is ready for them, which, onthe high situation to which they are transferred, is, in ordinary seasons, about the middle of April, orbeginning of May.—Journal of Agriculture, 320 THE FARMERS MAGAZINE.. 5^OO THE FARMERS MAGAZINE. 821 CONVERSION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE LONDON SEWERS INTO MANURE. The drawing on the other side represents a planof the works proposed to be erected by Mr. M.Joscehn Cooke, for the conversion of the water ofthe London sewers into manure. Mr. Cooke proposes to establish works as near aspossible to the mouths or embouchures of all thelarge sewers in London, and then to allow thewater out of such sewers to run into one or moremain receiving tanks ; afterwards to pump it fromthese tanks into a series of smaller ones ; and then, when in them, to treat it with a very cheap chemicalagent known at present only to himself, which willinstantaneously precipitate all the valuable andoffensive products from the water to the bottom ofthe tanks, leaving the top water clear and freefrom smell. The top water in these tanks is thenallowed to run into the Thames, whilst the thickmatter that remains at the bottom is conveyed awayinto

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• bookcentury1800
• bookidfarmersmagazine21
• booksubjectagriculture